Archive: 10/5/2011

Technology firms frequently require workers to sign non-compete agreements, which typically bar their employees from joining rival companies for one to two years. For firms, the agreements keep workers from ...

For years comets have mystified scientists with their compositions that appear to have formed in both warm and cold environments, rather than in one location of a uniform temperature. But new research shows ...

For several years, the Human Dynamics research group at the MIT Media Lab has been using the standard sensors in smartphones to collect data about peoples social interactions, drawing surprising conclusions ...

There are many ways rocks can be textured. Wind erosion, water erosion, the escape of volcanic gases during their formation (in the case of igneous rocks) all these forces can create the pitted textures ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first version of Chrome for Android should be just around the corner, according to ConceivablyTech. Google is heading toward the finish line for the first release of Chrome for Android, ...

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it would seek a ban in France and Italy on sales of Apple's newly released iPhone, in the latest round of its legal battle with the US technology giant.

Supernovas -- stars in the process of exploding -- open a window onto the history of the elements of Earth's periodic table as well as the history of the universe. All of those heavier than oxygen were formed ...